Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.edu!rodgers From: rodgers@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.edu (R. P. C. Rodgers, M.D.) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: syncronizing clocks on workstations Message-ID: Date: 6 Jun 91 23:22:48 GMT References: <988@sunpix.East.Sun.COM> <1991Jun4.162324.28837@cs.utk.edu> <1991Jun05.185748.1739@dialogic.com> Sender: daemon@cgl.ucsf.edu Lines: 15 In article <988@sunpix.East.Sun.COM>, jlf@galaxy.East.Sun.COM (John "Do The Bartman" Furlani) writes: >> >Hands down, then best way to synchronize clocks over a network is to use >NTP (Network Time Protocol). Yes, but (at least at our site) this does not eliminate the need for something like a cron entry for rdate, as if the slave and master clocks get too far out of synch., ntp fails to synchronize them... Cheerio, Rick Rodgers R. P. C. Rodgers, M.D. (415)476-2957 (work) 664-0560 (home) UCSF Laurel Heights Campus UUCP: ...ucbvax.berkeley.edu!cca.ucsf.edu!rodgers 3333 California St., Suite 102 Internet: rodgers@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.edu San Francisco CA 94118 USA BITNET: rodgers@ucsfcca